Thursday Notebook

May 23, 1986

A $1.5 million lawsuit filed in New Jersey in 1984 against Avron Fogelman, co-owner of the Kansas City Royals, will be heard in federal district court in Kansas City. The lawsuit was refiled in Kansas City on behalf of a real-estate broker from West Long Branch, N.J. In his suit, Gerald M. Sherman contends Fogelman did not pay him for his five-year effort to find a major-league baseball franchise that might be purchased by Fogelman. A court in Trenton, N.J., ruled that it did not have jurisdiction over Fogelman, who has housing developments in a number of states but not in New Jersey. The lawsuit was refiled in Kansas City because the jurisdiction was available, an attorney for Sherman said. A date has not been set to hear the suit.